Tranquil time out No.2

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Would love to have this as my shop I have not been riding for a few weekends, just catching up on some other things about home as well as spending a lot of time working out my next motorcycle tour plan. Decided to put my money where my mouth is [...]
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Be Seen, Be Safe

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I received an email from a Motorcycle Paradise reader recently who has been injured when an elderly driver pulled out in front of him. His headlight was on and his motorcycle was brightly coloured yet the driver apparently didn’t see him. He is in [...]
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The top 10 Motorcycle tours in the world

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Update. Well since I wrote this I have started to ride the top 10. Elsewhere on this blog you can find my ride reports for Europe Alps, North America, Japan and New Zealand. I probably have a different view on things now so maybe I will write a new version [...]
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Joe Rocket boots review

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I have purchased some new riding footwear and have chosen a pair of Joe Rocket Meteor boots. I am starting at the bottom in putting together an outfit suitable for riding in colder places. That could be southern Australia or New Zealand or beyond. [...]
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New Earplugs

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My new supply of soft silicon earplugs has arrived. For reasons I am not certain of these style of earplugs mostly used by swimmers are marked up in Australia 3 to 4 times the price they retail for overseas, so I source mine from the Earplug superstore [...]
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Helmet Windjammer

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I took my previous Shark RSR helmet out for a spin yesterday to revisit an item designed to cut wind noise on helmets I had purchased some years ago. Called the Windjammer II from Proline Sports UK I first purchased this to use on a KBC helmet I previously [...]
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Hide and Seek

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That's the game I think I was playing with the scattered showers today when I decided to do a smaller then usual southern ride. The weather looked fine this morning and after a slow start I got on the road sometime before 8.00am with no real plan other [...]
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